Worried about loosing your Mavic?
If someone finds your lost Mavic what can be done to help them contact you and return it?
Have you already placed labels with your FAA Registration number and phone number on your Mavic to help protect your precious investment?
Thats a great start!
Here is a helpful tip that can potentially allow the person that found it return it to its rightful owner.
Load your Micro SD card or cards up in you card reader and access the folder structure.
There will be 2 default Folders already created if you have used the Mavic to shoot any photo's or video in the past
They are DCIM and MISC
Leave those alone and add 2 additional folders.
Add one that states your phone number and the other states your FAA registration number
There are 2 reasons I choose to create folders to present this information instead of a simple text file.
1. Not relying on the person that found the Mavic searching around looking for a text file. That could be missed.
2. Folder names cant be missed when searching the Micro SD card using a computer and they accept all kinds of alphanumeric characters as well as symbols within thier names.
Its something everyone should do!
What my Micro SD card folder structures look like (of course phone number information and FAA Registration number removed in this example to protect the innocent)
I use the underscores at the beginning of the file names so that they will be indexed and placed at the top of the folder listing.
Update:
I have added a downloadable program that will prompt one to enter the drive letter of thier Micro SD card , phone number , and FAA Registration number to automate the process of creating these directory entries. One will need to extract the Executable file from the zipped archive.
It can be downloaded freely from this link
Mavic SD Card Contact Generator
Please like this thread posting if you find it helpful and informative!
If someone finds your lost Mavic what can be done to help them contact you and return it?
Have you already placed labels with your FAA Registration number and phone number on your Mavic to help protect your precious investment?
Thats a great start!
Here is a helpful tip that can potentially allow the person that found it return it to its rightful owner.
Load your Micro SD card or cards up in you card reader and access the folder structure.
There will be 2 default Folders already created if you have used the Mavic to shoot any photo's or video in the past
They are DCIM and MISC
Leave those alone and add 2 additional folders.
Add one that states your phone number and the other states your FAA registration number
There are 2 reasons I choose to create folders to present this information instead of a simple text file.
1. Not relying on the person that found the Mavic searching around looking for a text file. That could be missed.
2. Folder names cant be missed when searching the Micro SD card using a computer and they accept all kinds of alphanumeric characters as well as symbols within thier names.
Its something everyone should do!
What my Micro SD card folder structures look like (of course phone number information and FAA Registration number removed in this example to protect the innocent)
I use the underscores at the beginning of the file names so that they will be indexed and placed at the top of the folder listing.
Update:
I have added a downloadable program that will prompt one to enter the drive letter of thier Micro SD card , phone number , and FAA Registration number to automate the process of creating these directory entries. One will need to extract the Executable file from the zipped archive.
It can be downloaded freely from this link
Mavic SD Card Contact Generator
Please like this thread posting if you find it helpful and informative!
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